How many times do you need to go back, Alex? Reid and Chantelle Houghton team up to clear out their former love nest

It's been six weeks since they called off their 16 month romance, but it appears Alex Reid and Chantelle Houghton have still got unfinished business.

Despite Alex, 37, visiting their rented Brentwood, Essex, home to clear out the rest of his stuff earlier this week, he was back again on Thursday with his ex-fiancee, 29.

Obviously, the couple are keen to get their deposit back on the 1930s, four-bedroom property so were both at the house to clear out the last of their belongings and make sure it was clean for the next tenants.

Painful: Alex Reid carries an empty Stokke box outside his former home in Brentwood, Essex

Surely, it's not that bad? Chantelle Houghton has a look of disgust on her face as she leaves the house

Although the exes have both been spotted carrying clothes and baby paraphernalia for their daughter Dolly over the past two weeks, this time it looked like they were dumping a lot of their unwanted things.

Among the items they dumped were wicker CD storage, Alex's vitamin drinks and lots of heavy duty refuse sacks.

Chantelle has spent the past two weeks living at her mother's house after moving out of the £500,000 property.

World's apart: The pair barely spoke or looked at each other as they cleared out the last of their belongings and rubbish

So much rubbish! Alex did most of the heavy lifting as he made numerous trips to the front of the house

She was hoping to move straight into her next home, but her rental offer was gazumped by a higher bidder.

At the time, she tweeted in fury: 'The week gets better... in the
middle of moving house an (sic) Beresfords estate agents have just done a
deal behind my back with someone else!'

When
a rival agent Bairstow tweeted an offer to help her find another
property and asked her where she was looking, she replied: 'Brentwood,
Shenfield, Ingatestone, Billericay...'

Pained: Chantelle wasn't wearing a scrap of make-up or fake tan for her awkward meeting with her ex

Chantelle
had found a new home and paid a registration fee to show her interest
in it, but was disappointed when the estate agent informed her another
party had made a higher offer to rent it.

She declined to top the new offer so has been at her mother's house
while she hunts for a new property in Brentwood area.

After her upset, she decided to put her belongings in self-storage while she found somewhere else to live.

Curvier: Chantelle has admitted piling on the pounds due to comfort eating since their split

However, when returning to her former love nest, where she lived for less than a year with Alex, Chantelle was terrified when she found a rat in the kitchen.

Meanwhile, the former Paris Hilton lookalike has hit out at reports she is banning Alex from seeing their four-month-old daughter.

She tweeted this week: 'Just for the record Alex is welcome to see dolly whenever he wants & he will tell u that too, sick of the tweets from ppl saying he cant!'

Is that recyclable? Alex squashes down a box left outside the front fence